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No. 403,046. Patented May '7, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARK A. HEATH, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JOHN S. LYNCH, OF SAME PLACE.

BALEQCOVERING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,046, dated May 7, 1889. Application filed October 8, 1888. Serial No. 287,552- (o model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MARK A. HEATH, a citia zen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bale-Coverings, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a comparatively rigid bale-covering which can readily be taken apart or folded for reship.- ment, so as to be used for a great number of times, and which will serve to protect the contained material from injury and loss; and it consists of bale-covering formed of wire-netting, the separate parts of which are connected to each other by means of selvage wires and hooks; and also in the combination of the covering of wire-nettin g with an inner lining of paper or woven fabric, and in an improved wire-netting for baling purposes, as hereinafter fully set forth.

My improvement is adapted for baling cotton and other similar material, being employed as a substitute for the coarse jute cloth heretofore used for the purpose, the wire-netting being much stronger than the cloth and more durable. The compact form of the bale as it leaves the press by my improvement will be firmly held, so that there will be less waste of room in packing the bales so covered than with the ordinary bales, which by bulging outward do not retain their original rectangular pressed form.

Figure lis a perspective view showing a bale provided with my improved covering, one corner of the wire-netting being broken away to show the inner lining. Fig. 2 is a plan view showing the bottom and connected sides and ends of the bale-covering of wirenetting, one of the side pieces and one of the end pieces being broken away. Fig. 3 represents a plan view of the top piece or cover of the bale, showing the wire loops which are to be bent into hook form around the selvagewires of the side and end pieces. Fig. 4 is a detail plan view showing a piece of the covi ering of wire-netting formed with diagonal meshes. Fig. 5 is a detail plan view showing an improved coi'istr'uction of wirene'tting for the covering. Fig. 6 represents the turned loops made to receive the shanlrs of the rivets having projecting heads. Fig. 7 represents an edge view of a separately-formed connectingn hook and a section of the connected selvagewires. Fig. 8 represents a detail section showing 5 5 the connection of the pieces of Wire-netting by means of the wire loop shown in Fig. 3 when bent in hook form, the loop-hook being shown in section. Fig. 9 is a detail plan view showing the connecting loops as arranged for 6o bending in hook form around the selvage-wire of an opposite piece of netting, as shown in Fig. 8.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the bottom, B the sides, O the ends, and D the top piece, of a bale-covering made of wire-netting, the said top, bottom, and side pieces being each provided with a surrounding selVage-wire, d, which may be made of greater diameter than that of the intervening- 7o wires, b. l The abutting selvagewires a a of the bottom A, sides B, and ends O are connected by means of the separately-formed hooks c, as shown in Figs. l, 2, and 7, thus hinging the said parts to each other, so that the same can be readily folded for transportation. The top D may be preferably connected to the upright sides B and ends O by means of the loops d, which are to be bent in hook form around the selvagewire a of the 8o sides and ends after the material has been forced into the bale-covering by the action of the plunger of the press. The loops d may be formed by means of a continuous wire,which is wound around the selvage-wire @of the top 8 5 D, as shown in Fig. 9, and the loops so formed are to be bent to hook form around the selvage-wire a of the sides B and ends C, as shown in the sectional View, Fig. 8, thus connecting the several parts to each other by 9o means of loop-formed wire hooks e, and the hooks e can be employed instead of the hooks o for securing all of the pieces to each other, if preferred.

When the contained material is to be removed from the bale, the hooks e or c, as the case may be, are to be opened, so that the top D of the bale can be removed, and upon the removal of the contents of the bale the hooks which hold the sides B and the ends C in an roo upright position can be opened, and then the sides and ends can be folded down upon the bottom, so as to make a compact package for return shipment.

Any suitable form of Wire-netting may be employed; but I prefer to employ a Wire-netting, as shown in Figs. 4,5,8, and 9, in which the intersections of the cross-Wires are provided With projecting bosses j, Which tend to protect the Wire from abrasion; and in making the said netting I have first provided a number of Wires having the turned eyes or loops j", as shown in Fig. 6, and, after arranging the same in a rectangular form, as shown in Fig. 5,connected the same by means of the rivets F, the shank g of the rivet passing through the corresponding eyes or loops of the cross-Wires 7L and c', as shown in Fig. 8. The netting When finished may be galvanized, as usual in the manufacture of Wire-netting, thus rigidly connecting the wires at thc intersecting points.

Inside the covering of Wire-netting maybe placed the lining E, Figs. l and 8,Whieli may be made of any approved material, as paper o1' cloth, and either iire or Water proof, if desired, and which will serve to protect the inclosed material from injury and loss through the open meshes of the Wire-netting; but the Wire -netting can be advantageously used Without the inner lining.

I claim as my inventionl. Abale-covering composed of rectangular pieces of Wire-netting which have a selvage- Wire at their boundary edges and are con* nected to each other by means of hooks, Which serve to form hinge-joints between the two adjoining rectangular pieces, whereby the same can be folded for transshipment, substantially as described.

2. A bale-covering composed of rectangular pieces of Wire-netting having a selvage-Wire at their boundary edges, and which are connected to each other by means of hooks which serve to form hinge-joints between the two adjoining rectangular pieces, and provided with a supplementary inner lining, substann tially as and for the purpose specified.

3. The improved bale-covering, consisting of a Wire-netting composed of Wires which are each turned into loops at their intersecting points and are secured by means of rivets having heads which project above the Wire fabric, substantially as described.

MARK A. HEATH.

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SocRArEs SoHoLFIELn, JOHN S. LYNCH. 

